Some trained ad hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Saturday, besieged electoral office over alleged non inclusion in the elections duties.
The ad hoc staff numbering about 300 persons, besieged the INEC office in Owerri, awaiting information from INEC officials.
One of them, Mr Mike Echetama, told NAN that they were trained staff of tertiary institutions in the state who applied to work as Collation Officers and Returning officers during the elections.
Echetama, a staff of the Alvan Ikoku Federal college of Education Owerri said they had been at the INEC premises since the eve of the elections.
He alleged that INEC had failed to publish any list of ad hoc staff for the elections, leaving them in the dark.
“We leant that only staff of the Federal University of Technology Owerri will be needed in the elections,” he said. Read more